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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Vietnamese
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Digital comms samurai in the charity/NGO sector
  • Bachelor of Arts (Cinema studies, Cultural studies), Hono...
  • From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Profile 70% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live the live, love the life.

ABOUT ME

Easy-going and daft Aussie who likes a laugh, a beer, and a good chat about anything: politics, philosophy, film, books, people, gags. Open to new things and new people. Can dance, will dance.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been involved in couch-surfing share houses and even stayed with couch-surfing friends, although nothing official. Hoping to find some connections in my travels through NE Europe and SE Asia over the next few months and then begin hosting proper when I am back in Australia.

Interests

I love new things, small things. Ambling through new places and meeting new people. Have managed to travel the world working in digital communications for NGOs and charities. Enjoy anything that makes the world better through making beautiful things or doing beautiful things for others. What else... obsessed with music, art, anything that makes me think or feel something.

  • arts
  • books
  • dancing
  • beer
  • politics
  • traveling
  • painting
  • music
  • surfing
  • communications

Music, Movies, and Books

Some films: Rafifi, 24 Hour Party People, Old Boy, A Chinese Odyssey, The Birds, Annie Hall. Some books: The Road, On the Road, After the Quake, Midnight's Children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Cloud Atlas. Some music: Mogwai, Cornelius, The Sea and Cake, Wild Nothing, Yo La Tengo, The Presets.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Perhaps banal, but the last moment was sunrise in London. Such soft, beautiful light it looked like an Impressionist painting. What can I say? Easily pleased I guess...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

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